The California Department of Housing and Community Development has ordered every city and county to plan for 2.5 million new homes by 2030, but nearly all municipalities are not on track to hit their numbers.
Virginia-based AES cited project economics, infrastructure requirements, market conditions, community considerations and long-term investment priorities as reasons it won't submit plans for the project near Morgan Hill.
Work on a new tunnel is to be completed later this year, and the draining of the 1,271-acre reservoir and seven-year reconstruction dam reconstruction will begin early next year.
Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies have not identified any of the victims, or any suspects in the incident that occurred on July 25 at a house party in unincorporated Santa Clara County near Morgan Hill.
Police said Anthony Joseph Ramon, 25, of Gilroy, was arrested by Morgan Hill Police on July 9 on suspicion that he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl at a YMCA summer program at the city’s Aquatics Center.
The “Operation Family Ties” investigation began in June 2025 when a Morgan Hill police officer became suspicious of one of the defendants applying to open a massage parlor under another individual’s name.
The suspect, 60-year-old Christina Jean Johnson, was arrested in Shasta County last month, and appeared at the South County courthouse in Morgan Hill last week. She operated a daycare facility in Gilroy.
In March, a Nazi flag was hung on the north Morgan Hill overpass in where supporters of President Donald Trump had gathered for a political demonstration.
During a high-speed chase on crowded streets in 2022 north of Morgan Hill and in San Jose, the former UFC champion fired a handgun multiple times at a truck carrying three people, including a man accused of molesting Velasquez’s relative.
The county Facilities and Fleet Department completed three solar arrays in 2024, part of a larger campaign to expand solar power capacity and battery storage at county facilities.
